The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-04-08
THE GOVERNORS COURSE.

we're not disgusting These gentle
men, in the face OF the plato rm on
which Governor Taylor processes to
have stood, and on which the Gemo-
Gratis bad a right to believe he stood,
IN the absence Of any declaration on
his part, and also in the face of the
repeated utterances ofthat gentleman
on the stump that he was opposed
TO National Aid to Education, still
insist that the Governor has not been
Inconsistent, but has ali the while
been in favor Of that idea. When
the Governor spoke here he took
stroug ground against National Aid
to Education. He argued tia Con
gress had no right TO levy and col
lect taxes for any such purpose.
That the public schools we're matters
OF State and not Congressional Juria-
diction. Neither Marks, or House
took stronger grounds against that
scheme than did the Dem ocratic can
dIdate for Governor. The Democrats
of this county had adopted resolu-
tions denounclng the scheme Of
National Aid to Education, and were
violently opposed to it. This was
well known t. the Democratic can
didate for Governor and he let him
self out on 1t at This place. If re-
ports of his speeches at some other
places are correct, and we do not
| doubt it, the Governor was not SO
violently opposed to National Aid
to Education at those places as he
was here, The Governor does not
seem to have held to the same views
on this educational question at all Of
his appointments, and this fact will
account for the differences Of opin-
ion over the country as to what were
/ the Governors views upon that
question. The Governor was by
this issue pretty much as he was on
the tariff. When he was in the
agricultural regions of Middle and
| West Tennessee, to use his own eX-
pressions, he would walk out on -le
free trade end Of the Dem 3ogz II
platform, but when he was in SIGH.
Of the furnaces of East Tennessee ae
would walk out on the protecuo1
end Of that same platform. Upon
which end or side Of his platform
the GoYernor got when he struck
communities in which there was q
/ Blair Blu element in his own party
we do not know, unless it was on
the bottom side. bat he got there all
the same. It is difficult to tel from
his speeches how lie stood, but this
ne all know, he said he stood on the
/ Democratic State Platform. He
said this much IN black and white,
and there can be no mistake about
it. Turning to the platform which
the Governor ran on, and which he
said be endorsed we find these en-
Dhatlc words: SIT (the Democracy
of Tennessee) demands that the
surplus revenue now, OF hereafter,
in the Treasury, whether Of gold or
silver, be applied to the ex,irguish-
ment of the public debt, and it de-
nounces any effort of Congress to
appropriate the revenues of the
: government for any purpose not
, authorized by the constitution, or
subversive of The rights of the states
and the people thereof. .
This was understood by every
body to refer to the scheme to APP
propriate money in aid ef the schools
of the State out of the Federal Trea-
sury, Both the candidates for Gov.
so understood it and the Democratic
candidate protested to endorse tn at
platform. II he did not, all right
thinking people will agree, that he
should have declined the nominal
ton, as no man fit to be governor
Of a great stale would accept a
nomination upon a platform which
/ he could not endose. Il Gov. Tay-
Tor was not opposed TO the Blair Bill
as he claimed in an interview with
a correspondent Of the Chicago Tri-
bune, and if he favored the idea Of
national aid TO Education, as IS now
claimed, he should hnye made this
knsWn when the nomination upon a
/ platform condemDing that scheme
was rendered him, and not deceived
the democrats of the state, as he did
do Who ever supposed that Gov.
/ Taylor was not in line with his par
to upon that question until he said
50 III his message? Gov. Tavf0r is
/ entitled to his convictions upon all
public questions, but no candidate
has the moral right to conceal, or.
mislead the people rs 10 his views
upon any issue Of Importance, and
geJ into cfice by a fraud aud false
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